What does intercourse mean?

Definitions for intercourse
ˈɪn tərˌkɔrs, -ˌkoʊrsin·ter·course

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. intercourse, social intercoursenoun

    communication between individuals

  2. sexual intercourse, intercourse, sex act, copulation, coitus, coition, sexual congress, congress, sexual relation, relation, carnal knowledgenoun

    the act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman; the man's penis is inserted into the woman's vagina and excited until orgasm and ejaculation occur

GCIDE

  1. Intercoursenoun

    Same as sexual intercourse.

Wiktionary

  1. intercoursenoun

    Communication, conversation.

  2. intercoursenoun

    Dealings between countries.

  3. intercoursenoun

    Dealings with people, including commerce and trade.

  4. intercoursenoun

    Sexual intercourse.

  5. Intercoursenoun

    A particular town in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Intercoursenoun

    Etymology: entrecours, French.

    This sweet intercourse
    Of looks, and smiles; for smiles from reason slow,
    To brute deny'd, and are of love the food. John Milton.

    The choice of the place requireth many circumstances, as the situation near the sea, for the commodiousness of an intercourse with England. Francis Bacon.

    What an honour is it that God should admit us into such a participation of himself? That he should give us minds capable of such an intercourse with the Supreme Mind? Francis Atterbury.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Intercoursenoun

    a commingling; intimate connection or dealings between persons or nations, as in common affairs and civilities, in correspondence or trade; communication; commerce; especially, interchange of thought and feeling; association; communion

  2. Etymology: [Formerly entercourse, OF. entrecours commerce, exchange, F. entrecours a reciprocal right on neighboring lands, L. intercursus a running between, fr. intercurrere to run between. See Inter-, and Course.]

Wikidata

  1. Intercourse

    Intercourse is a radical feminist analysis of sexual intercourse in literature and society, written by Andrea Dworkin. Intercourse is often said to argue that "all heterosexual sex is rape", based on the line from the book that says "violation is a synonym for intercourse." However, Dworkin has denied this interpretation, stating, "What I think is that sex must not put women in a subordinate position. It must be reciprocal and not an act of aggression from a man looking only to satisfy himself. That's my point."

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Intercourse

    in′tėr-kōrs, n. connection by dealings: communication: commerce: communion: coition. [O. Fr. entrecours—L. intercursus, a running between—inter, between, currĕre, cursum, to run.]

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of intercourse in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of intercourse in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of intercourse in a Sentence

  1. William James:

    True ideas lead us into useful verbal and conceptual quarters as well as directly up to useful sensible termini. They lead to consistency, stability and flowing human intercourse.

  2. Martin Luther King, Jr.:

    Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.

  3. Brett Kavanaugh:

    I did not have sexual intercourse or anything close to sexual intercourse in high school or for many years thereafter.

  4. Lisa Lindley:

    What really accounted for most of the risk for the girls was sexual behavior, basically the earlier they initiated intercourse and the more partners they had the more likely they were to become pregnant.

  5. Hilda Hutcherson:

    Find other ways of enjoying each other or providing each other pleasure other than intercourse.

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